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Right now, I am visiting New York. There are not many vending machines here, like there are in Osaka, where I live. Surely, there must be a good reason for Japan having all those vending machines. Turns out, there are several.

Chocolate lovers around Japan were understandably thrilled when the Kit Kat Chocolatery, the world's first Kit Kat specialty store, opened in the Seibu Ikebukuro Department Store about a year ago. Of course, we were pretty excited too, and when we...

Katsuhiro Otomo, the artist best known as the creator of the Akira sci-fi manga and anime has been won France's Angoulême International Comics Festival's Grand Prix. Otomo topped British comic writer Alan Moore and Belgian artist Hermann in the fi...

Now that the first episode of Power Rangers Dino Charge's is now available on Nick. com, here's the show's opening sequence. The opening sequence features the main five Rangers, Kendall Morgan, Sledge, and the Keeper.

Following the knife-featured third episode of Assassination Classroom last Friday, the on-air of the fifth episode of the Tantei Kageki Milky Holmes TD TV anime, which was originally scheduled to be broadcasted this Saturday night, is cancelled.

Bandai Namco Games has posted a new Dragon Ball Xenoverse game trailer, which features some characters from Dragon Ball GT in action! In the game, the the Dragon Ball Z history is changing thanks to Towa and Mira.

Film to open on March 6 before 2nd TV season premieres in April The official website for the Knights of Sidonia compilation film began streaming a new trailer on Friday. The video previews some of the new scenes that do not appear in the original ...

After one-year hiatus, Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond resumes its serialization with the 323rd chapter in the 9th of 2015 issue of Kodansha's Weekly Morning, which is released in Japan today, January 29. The issues features the manga on its cover and o...

Larger-that-life columnist and talent Matsuko Deluxe is well-known for her sharp tongue, particularly where pretty ladies are concerned. This week the target of her ire is idol groups like AKB48. On a radio show Monday, she slammed the idea of the...

Sega announced on Thursday that they will be releasing the highly anticipated two-dimensional fighting game Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax in North America and Europe on PlayStation 3 and PS Vita this summer.

The 1. 0. 2 version for Super Smash Bros. for Wii U just went live in Japan, and in addition to the various fixes we usually get, the update also adds 15 stages for the 8-player mode. Nintendo shared a list with the following stages.

As part of Noitamina's 10th anniversary, the Fuji TV's animation block held a poll last month for fans to vote on what they thought what were best anime songs of all time, for anime that aired on the block.

New York International Children's Film Festival has laid out their 2015 line-up, which includes a February 27th, opening night presentation of the North American premiere of Studio Ghibli's When Marnie was There at the Director's Guild of America ...

We've already taken a look at the top 30 anime of 2014 according to Japanese textboard website, 2ch. Now it's time to look at the top 10 anime of 2014 according to 4chan's anime and manga image board, /a/.

Over the weekend of January 23rd – 25th, two 18 year old cosplayers were arrested outside the anime convention known as G-Anime that takes place in Gatineau, in the Quebec province of Canada. The cosplayers were reported to have been armed with ri...

In Dragon Ball Xenoverse, a group of villains have been rewriting Dragon Ball history with magic, and they've even powered up enemies and turned allies into bad guys. This week's Jump reveals the main antagonist.

"D. O. B" opening song teased before series premiere, delayed from April to July The official website for the television anime of Yū Moroboshi's Kūsen Madōshi Kōhosei no Kyōkan (Aerial Combat Wizard Candidates' Instructor) light novel series began...

The official website for the anime adaptation of Takaya Kagami's dark fantasy manga Owari no Seraph (Seraph of the End) manga has revealed new additional cast members for the April /October anime series.

Jan 28, 12:00 games Todd studies Falcom games and wonders why they aren't more popular! Plus NightyCry, Dead or Alive, and…well, King of Fighters, in a sense. ― I glance through Falcom's catalog this week, which means I should open with some weird...

Providing their greatest look into the world and characters of The Awakened Fate Ultimatum, Nippon Ichi Software America have shared a set of three trailers for the upcoming dungeon crawling RPG. The game will be available exclusively on the PlayS...

Second season promotional artwork for GochiUsa has now come – feminine blobs of moe hold signs reminding everyone of their TV anime sequel, and the pseudo-cafe theme which isn't really used at all. All too often, GochiUsa's key visual artworks hav...

The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Durarara! ! has released preview images and the synopsis for the fourth episode of Durarara! ! x2 Shou, the fourth episode of Durarara! ! x2 Shou airs this Saturday at 11:30pm JST on Tokyo MX, G...

One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3's Japanese launch is set for March 26, with North America and Europe to follow this summer, but Bandai Namco isn't done adding characters. According to the latest issue of Jump, Rob Lucci (pictured in the scan below) i...

Shonen Jump Preps Four New Manga Series Posted by Chris Beveridge January 29, 2015 at 04:31 PM The Japanese edition of Weekly Shonen Jump is gearing up for several new works to debut in the coming month, and if the Jump Start initiative continues ...

By { Justinn } - Thursday, January 29, 2015 - No Comments It was a rather sluggish Thursday afternoon. The scorching weather felt like an iron chain attached to my legs as my vision wandered about for a certain commercial building that was well-sh...

If you are following all Digimon news lately, you'll find out that fans need to take time on the special website and click some eggs to hatch them, which then becomes the new information that gets revealed.

First 'Tokyo Ghoul √A' Anime DVD/BD Commercial Debuts Posted by Chris Beveridge January 29, 2015 at 03:27 PM Marvelous Entertainment is gearing up for the home video release of their winter 2015 season with Tokyo Ghoul √A and now they've brought o...

Tamayura, Junichi Sato's iyashikei(healing) schoolgirl anime series which has featured an OVA in 2010 and a TV season in 2011 and then 2013' Tamayura - More Aggressive last summer, is set to chronicle the final year of its subjects' high school ex...